Good old wet and noisy night at Canp Lejeune

[medxam]

As many of you know, I live just 1/2 miles from Camp Lejeune. After almost 2 inches of rain today the troops are out firing the big guns tonight, so that they won't set the woods on fire. It rattles the windows, but it is the "Sound of Freedom"!

medxam












As most of you know, I live just about 1/2 miles from Camp Lejeune. The troops are out tonight firing the big guns, after almost 2 inches of rain today so that won't st the woods on fire. It rattles the windows, but it is the "Sound of Freedom"!

medxam

 

[NCTexan]

Many moons ago, I was fire direction officer for an 8 inch SP Howitzer battery at LeJeune. We set into a firing position about 100 meters off Hwy 17 at about 5am.

There was an early morning temperature inversion which held the sound in more than normal.

First salvo went out right at sunrise. Shortly thereafter half a dozen residents from the civilian side of the highway came charging into the firing position yelling "Cease Fire, Cease Fire!"

I'm not sure that they were appreciating the sound of freedom.

 

[M29since14]

...It rattles the windows, but it is the "Sound of Freedom"!

Well put! I don't know how long that goes on but I commend your attitude.

 

[bovw]

Many moons ago, I was fire direction officer for an 8 inch SP Howitzer battery at LeJeune. We set into a firing position about 100 meters off Hwy 17 at about 5am.

There was an early morning temperature inversion which held the sound in more than normal.

First salvo went out right at sunrise. Shortly thereafter half a dozen residents from the civilian side of the highway came charging into the firing position yelling "Cease Fire, Cease Fire!"

I'm not sure that they were appreciating the sound of freedom.

Many moons ago, I was a radio operator for an 8 inch SP battery at LeJeune. To this day I remember the smell of powder hanging on the morning air, loved it

 

[charlie sherrill]

I frequently hear my windows getting rattled from nearby Camp Shelby. You get used to it.

 

[TACC1]

Madiso has F-16's stationed there. I never get enough of
the "sounds of freedom."
TACC1

 

[medxam]

bovw, it is almost as good as "the smell of napalm in the morning"!

medxam

 

[vigil617]

I'm your "neighbor" up here about 10 miles south of Fort Bragg, and your Marines come up here from Lejeune a couple times a year to the Army arty range. That's a noisy week or two around here, at most any time of day or night, given the training schedule. Even though we're in the Sandhills here, without any bedrock underneath us, the house shakes a bit on its foundation when the big boys are a-blastin'. Sounds like an approaching thunderstorm sometimes; other times, it's like the fellow next door slams the door of his big truck shut...from inside our house, a low but distinct "whump"....

God Bless 'em all, though!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I know the feeling. I live just a few blocks from the tracks and you can hear the thumps and whumps of heavy artillery and gunfire from the other side around the 4th of July and New Years plus a few other random times throughout the year. Comforting???????....

 

[the ringo kid]

About the only sounds from my area are the sounds of choppers that are being tested after being repaired, as well as the sound of Goshhawk trainers. Love it. ;-))

 

[shouldazagged]

Many, many years ago I lived in a house in the country that was around twenty miles from Fort Knox. We often could hear guns booming from the firing ranges, especially when there was overcast.

The place had a cistern that was forever running dry no matter how much rain we had. Turned out whoever dug the damn thing built it right down to bedrock, which was extensive and fairly shallow in the area. According to an expert on the systems, transmitted vibration from the guns jolted it enough to crack the floor of the tank.

True? Who knows--I was no expert.

 

[rdcl]

My dad being a career Marine, I spent most of my childhood living at MCAS Cherry Point, not too far from Camp Lejeune. Lots of memories from the noise of jets & the smell of kerosene.


.....that too, was the sound (& smell) of freedom.


I remember dad taking me into the hanger to watch the jets being worked on.

Russ

 

[Old Seabee]

X-Pert

The defenition of an x-pert The means he comes from at least 25 miles away & the spert is only a drip under pressure .

 

[budrock56]

As many of you know, I live just 1/2 miles from Camp Lejeune. After almost 2 inches of rain today the troops are out firing the big guns tonight, so that they won't set the woods on fire. It rattles the windows, but it is the "Sound of Freedom"!

medxam












As most of you know, I live just about 1/2 miles from Camp Lejeune. The troops are out tonight firing the big guns, after almost 2 inches of rain today so that won't st the woods on fire. It rattles the windows, but it is the "Sound of Freedom"!

medxam

Heard em before. I live right down the road in Wilmington but travel through there often going to my place in Morehead City.

 

[budrock56]

Many moons ago, I was fire direction officer for an 8 inch SP Howitzer battery at LeJeune. We set into a firing position about 100 meters off Hwy 17 at about 5am.

There was an early morning temperature inversion which held the sound in more than normal.

First salvo went out right at sunrise. Shortly thereafter half a dozen residents from the civilian side of the highway came charging into the firing position yelling "Cease Fire, Cease Fire!"

I'm not sure that they were appreciating the sound of freedom.

Hahaha. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC. Home of Seymour Johnson AFB back in the 60's and 70's when they had the B-52's and F-4 Phantoms there. It's the Sound Of Freedom and you get used to it.

 

[rwsmith]

I'd rather have the cannons

I'd rather have the cannons a couple weeks of the year than having a continuous stream of C-141s in landing config shrieking a couple of hundred feet overhead 24/7 364 days/year.

 

[bovw]

My dad being a career Marine, I spent most of my childhood living at MCAS Cherry Point, not too far from Camp Lejeune. Lots of memories from the noise of jets & the smell of kerosene.


.....that too, was the sound (& smell) of freedom.


I remember dad taking me into the hanger to watch the jets being worked on.

Russ

My BIL spent 9 years at Cherry Point while I was at LeJeune. I always got a chuckle from the "Sound Of Freedom" signs. My oldest is at MCAS New River now, maybe I'll get to here the big guns again on one of my visits.

 

[Cyrano]

I remember being in a motel in Bel Aire MD, right next to Aberdeen Proving Ground in WW II. Some nights they would be firing something big: you'd hear BOOM, and then a swishing sound as the projectile went on its way. Never could hear it come down, though. Some days you'd see flak bursts above the proving ground; I guess they were testing fuses.

 

[Old Corp]

Yep - my brother and his wife live in the Goose Creek area right next to MCAS satellite facility on NC24. They used to do alot of Harrier jet training from there. Rattled the house.

And when they're shooting big stuff at Lejeune, I hear it very well all the way to my place in downeast Carteret Co.